Ohta, Ryuichi Nishikura, Nozomi Sano, Chiaki
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Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Background and Objectives: Sustainable healthcare is fundamentally rooted in community medicine education. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted global advancement in integrating traditional teaching and experiential learning. Additionally, an alarming decline in interest in community care has been observed among senior medical students. Here, we examine...
Ito, Yuki Okuno, Mitsuru Iwata, Keisuke Kawade, Masahiro Iwasa, Yuhei Sugiyama, Akihiko Nishigaki, Youichi Tomita, Eiichi
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Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Although endoscopic necrosectomy (EN) is a less invasive therapy for walled-off necrosis (WON), arterial bleeding can occur during EN. A 60-year-old man with infected WON underwent the EN procedure. During EN, the artery in the WON cavity was injured. As the artery was directly visible, we grasped it using a Coagrasper and coagulated the bleeding p...
Wang, Ping Kong, Lingbao An, Huijun Gao, Minge Cui, Hailong Lei, Dajiang
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Micromachines
Measuring the running accuracy of aerostatic bearings is challenging because of the high-precision requirements in rotational motion. This paper presents an ultra-high precision measurement method for aerostatic bearings using atomic force microscopy (AFM) as the displacement sensor. The Donaldson reversal method was used to separate the artifact f...
Streck, Laura E Faschingbauer, Martin Brenneis, Marco Boettner, Cosima S List, Kilian Kasparek, Maximilian F Boettner, Friedrich
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Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Background and Objectives: There is an ongoing discussion about the best alignment targets in total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Mechanical alignment has been the standard in TKA for years. Alongside the development of various classification systems to describe the native alignment of the knee (knee phenotype), kinematic alignment restoring the individ...
Kim, Junhyung Ryu, Byungju Kim, Yunhee Choi, Yireh Lee, Eunyoung
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Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Background and Objectives: Patients recovering from mild coronavirus disease (COVID-19) reportedly have dysphagia or difficulty in swallowing. We compared the prevalence of dysphagia between patients diagnosed with mild COVID-19 and those diagnosed with aspiration pneumonia alone. Materials and Methods: A retrospective study was conducted from Janu...
Lee, Sanghoon Zheng, Haolin Park, Sang-Min Kim, Ho-Joong Yeom, Jin S
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Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Background: Traditional treatment modalities for vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) include bed rest, pain medications, muscle relaxants, back braces, and physical therapy. In cases where conservative treatment proves ineffective, a new procedure called core decompression of the vertebral body is explored. Core decompression of the vertebral bo...
Silva, Hugo-Henrique Tavares, Valéria Neto, Beatriz Vieira Cerqueira, Fátima Medeiros, Rui Silva, Maria-Raquel G
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Genes
Gene variation linked to physiological functions is recognised to affect elite athletic performance by modulating training and competition-enabling behaviour. The fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) has been investigated as a good candidate for drug targeting, and recently, its single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs324420 was reported to be associat...
Buttenschoen, Jonas Pavel, Vlad Mehrl, Alexander Michels, Bernhard Albaladejo Fuertes, Sheila Seydel, Bettina Schlosser-Hupf, Sophie Müller, Martina Schmid, Stephan
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Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Background and Objectives: Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a highly variable disease able to present as structurally diverse cysts in different organs based on the host's immunological state as well as the time between diagnosis and the primary infection. Bacterial superinfections, especially with anaerobic pathogens from the Clostridiaceae genus, ...
McRee, Siobhan K Bayer, Abraham L Pietruska, Jodie Tsichlis, Philip N Hinds, Philip W
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Cancers
Despite recent advances in treatment, melanoma remains the deadliest form of skin cancer due to its highly metastatic nature. Melanomas harboring oncogenic BRAFV600E mutations combined with PTEN loss exhibit unrestrained PI3K/AKT signaling and increased invasiveness. However, the contribution of different AKT isoforms to melanoma initiation, progre...
Kovacevic, Pedja Dragic, Sasa Jandric, Milka Momcicevic, Danica Topolovac, Sandra Malesevic, Vedrana Kovacevic, Tijana Matejic-Spasic, Marijana Knezevic, Tanja Zlojutro, Biljana
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Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a severe clinical condition characterized by acute respiratory failure and a high mortality risk despite conventional mechanical ventilatory support. Veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (vvECMO) has emerged as an effective life-support technology for patients with ARDS. However, complication...
